• taiyang@lemmy.world
    9·
    1 hour ago

    Not for my daughter, I’m starting her early on Arch (she’s 4 but she will learn to love the terminal lol)

  • Maerman@lemmy.world
    24·
    3 hours ago

    I mean, for gen alpha, that’s an intentional effect. Tech is becoming more and more obfuscated by design.

    • OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
      18·
      2 hours ago

      Error messages when I was growing up:

      Network Error: TCP protocol not installed.

      Error messages now:

      Something went wrong. :(

      • Maerman@lemmy.world
        9·
        59 minutes ago

        Exactly. That second example infuriates me. Just give me something to troubleshoot, for fuck’s sake.

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    31·
    4 hours ago

    In a (rare for me) defense of Boomers, goddamn, the one dude I knew who learned COBOL on his GI Bill out of Vietnam…

    that man was a fucking wizard.

    He actually cackled to me when he told me how C Suite knew he was retiring in 6 months, they were not planning on hiring a replacement for him… he was planning on being hired back as a contractor within 2 years, seeing as he personally built the company’s entire transaction accounting payroll and billing systems in the mid 70s, and no one else had any idea how any of it worked.

    … For an international logistics company, with over 100 offices all over the world.

    But yes, the rest of the Boomers csn go back to Minions memes and being catfished by AI Brad Pitt or whatever it is they do these days on the 'puter.